I happened to find this by happenstance. Below, the
last entry, describes Dr. Don C.Wiley and Dr. Skehel's work regarding determination
of the location of the antigenic sites on the hemagglutinin molecule by
X-ray crystallography.

Thus far, I haven't heard of any more researchers dying.
Given the fact that many, if not most, of the researchers were preeminent
flu and viral researchers, I am quite concerned that the bird flu might
be the missing link or reason for their deaths.

The deaths appeared to stop just as the bird flu virus
widened in scope and began to be found in cluster cases. Also, coinciding
with the development of Spanish flu reconstructed in the lab.

Did these scientists find out someone was going to create
a chimera of H1N1 Spanish flu and H5N1 bird flu? or? Would they be the
scientists who knew how to prevent a pandemic? Dr. Wiley had researched
the infectivity of viruses and bacteria just prior to his death. He found
out how viruses and bacteria are able to infect.

I find it extremely odd, after several years of brilliant
scientists dying - some following each other on monthly basis - that the
deaths would come to a complete stop....at the same time the WHO and CDC
and even the World Bank warn of a pandemic.

Patty

Here are some key moments in influenza history -

412 BC - Major epidemic of influenza recorded by Hippocrates

1781- Major epidemic causing high mortality among the
elderly that spread across Russia from Asia

1830 - Major epidemic causing high mortality among the
elderly that spread across Russia from Asia

1889-1890 - Major epidemic

1900 - Major epidemic

1918-1919 - Pandemic which killed 20-40 million people
around the world; also known as the "Spanish influenza"

Late 1920s - Richard Shope showed that swine influenza
could be transmitted through filtered mucous, implying that influenza is
caused by a virus